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300stories is, just likeThe Matilda Project, a great idea skillfully poured into a blog. The author is Dieter Rogiers. His idea is to write 300 stories in a year span. The condition is each one must be 300-words-long or shorter. That’s pretty cool if you ask me. Here’s a fragment of his explanation:

I should write more. That’s what I said to myself on the eve of my 35th birthday. This blog is my way to grab the bull by the horns. My aim? To produce a short story in 300 words or less practically each day for the next year.

Some of the stories will be hardly more than a sentence. Some of them will be hell to whittle down to a mere 300 words. But that is the challenge I’m setting myself. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy these stories and you’re free to comment on them.

Cortázar talks about his Cortázar-like experience with his own short-story La autopista del sur (The southern highwayor “thruway”), which can be found in Todos los fuegos el fuego (All fires the fire); traffic jams, technology, cars, and society.

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So we decided to start a new section, it’s called Cool blogs(as you can see on the title we are very creative). Here at Bookstops we’ve been interacting with some other literary blogs lately. There’s quite a few great ones, but Emily Reddon’s THE MATILDA PROJECT really is an amazing one. It is quite a beautiful and fun yet somewhat nostalgic blog. But, hey, we won’t dwell on –so effortlessly– trying to describe its awesomeness. Here’s a fragment of Emily’s explain-y bit:

Starting now, I’ll scour the world and London […] for the little independent bookshops that smell of paper and sell you not just a book, but a little piece of human history. Every week, no matter where in the world my crazy nomadic lifestyle takes me, I’ll share a new indie bookshop.

The goal is to prove to this sad generation of button-clickers that the ease of the internet is no match for the adventure and joy of a good old-fashioned human-run, paper-book-selling bookshop.

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